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Life jacket saves kayaking man

OPP believe a man wearing a life jacket was kept alive by his floatation device while crews tried to find him in Lake Superior.  The 65-year-old was kayaking with a friend on the lake near Wawa when he fell in the water.  Police say conditions were bad on the lake at the time.  Several rescue teams looked for the man including the U-S Coast Guard and a plane from the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The MNR plane spotted the man along the Lake Superior shoreline several hours after he went missing.  The man was in good health and police say his life jacket played a major role in keeping him alive.

 

Rocco Frangione
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.

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